Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Interesting to see the white house parsing its words over this issue. This is something under discussion, something been on the president s mind and appears its been on the president s mind lately as well. To hear the president yet again go after Attorney General Jeff Sessions, going after him in that interview, we will talk to him more about it later. Where do things stand on that. You heard him earlier on fox, What Kind Of Man is this, once again seizing on this recusal Jeff Sessions decided to go with early on in the administration to stay out of the russian investigation. That has obviously been under the president s skin ever since then and he went after Jeff Sessions. What changed, a watershed moment often this Punching Bag Relationship the president constantly beating up on Jeff Sessions, Jeff Sessions fired back showing what a lot of people in washington have been waiting for for a lon
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Out of millions of dollars. The president says he is a friend of ours, as they used to stay in the mob. Jim acosta joins us. I understand youre learning more about the advice the president is getting about issuing pardons related to the russian investigation. Reporter thats right, anderson. I have been told by a source inside the president s legal team he has been advised for months now to avoid any pardons in the russia investigation including Paul Manafort. Interesting to point out earlier this evening the Washington Post was reporting Rudy Guiliani told them in just the last several weeks, Rudy Guiliani had to talk the president out of pardoning Paul Manafort until it is over. Whats interesting here about all of that is that at the white house secretary, sarah sanders, apparently was giving us a false or incomplete information that did not add up when she said that a pardon was not under di
biden an illegitimate president. telling a local paper, quote, you have to look at this, dean said that 71% of republicans and nevada believe biden is an illegitimate president, and he is part of that 71%. that s his justification. in other words, i do not have an independent views or leadership or an ethical sense, this is about the witness thing, so this is what i think. again, nevada is not a deep red state by any means. but being an own remarkable weather vane, generic republican, appears unsustainable as long as donald trump controls the party. the big a lie, the lie about the core of american democracy and representative governance about a stolen election is the litmus test, it s the party line, is the question on which no dissent can be brought. with the single biggest question for republican candidates is now are you
pulled for many different sectors. we pulled from executive branch, legislative branch, we took people who heads state court service. but as soon as we started getting a little bit more diverse, we started shrinking the pool within which we can select justices and that s why this appointment is so exciting, because no matter who it is, they are going to bring some diverse backgrounds and some much needed life experience. that s a profound point, you are saying that this essential increasing credential-ism is kind of related to the demographic threat, it s a sort of bastion that is used to contradict being more diverse, as more candidates are considered, someone made this quid and it s not mine that nothing gives lie to us the two of the nine justices went to high school together. come on, what are we doing here? when we re talking about who is getting that into this very, very elite body. well
illegitimate president, and he is part of that 71%. that s his justification. in other words, i do not have an independent views or leadership or an ethical sense, this is about the witness thing, so this is what i think. again, nevada is not a deep red state by any means. but being an own remarkable weather vane, generic republican, appears unsustainable as long as donald trump controls the party. the big a lie, the lie about the core of american democracy and representative governance about a stolen election is the litmus test, it s the party line, is the question on which no dissent can be brought. with the single biggest question for republican candidates is now are you functionally pro who? well it s not just in hell s race. we are seeing a similar dynamic unfold in another nevada state. same state, the former attorney